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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them i — Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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Jede Trennung gibt einen Vorgeschmack des Todes und jedes Wiedersehen einen Vorg — Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera obscura: Sie zieht alle — Arthur Schopenhauer
My body and my will are one. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont — William Shakespeare
I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for — Fernando Pessoa
She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ , … — Anton Chekhov
It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the thing — Michel de Montaigne
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power. — Sri Chinmoy
States as great engines move slowly. — Francis Bacon
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill yo — Will Rogers
Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year' — William Ernest Henley